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17.Purana, 18.Vyakaran, 19.Bhagavat, 20.Patanjali, 21. Pushyadaivat, 22. Lekh, 23.Ganit, 24.Shakunirut, and25.Natak.Also the seventy two arts andcrafts and the Vedas with their angopangas (derivative literature based on the Vedas).
All these are the mithya shrut (scriptures) conceived throughthe false perception of mithyadrishti. These same become thesamyak shrut when conceived through the right perception of samyakdrishti. Also these same are the samyak shrut for themithyadrishti because these become the inspiring cause for samyaktva and influence him to abandon his dogmas of mithyadrishti.
This concludes the description of mithya shrut.
COMMENTARY -The scriptures propagated by mtthyadrishti individuals are called mithya shrut. Mithyadrishti is one whose thoughts are inspired by mithyatva (false perception or belief). Mithyatva is said to be of ten types as follows
Adhamme dhammasanna - To accept false religion as right religion.For example, to indulge in animal sacrifice in name of gods and goddesses and consider it to be a religious act.
Dhamme adhammasanna - To consider right religion to be false religion.For example, to consider the path of purity of soul as nonreligious.
Umagge maggasanna To consider the wrong path (path of sorrows) to be the right path (the path of happiness).
Magge umaggasanna - To consider the right path to be the wrong path. For example, to consider right perception, knowledge, and conduct, which leads to liberation, to be the path of sorrow.
Ajivesu jivasanna - To consider non-living as living. For example, to believe that all activity in 'this world is the activity of beings and there is no existence of anything non-living.
Jivesu ajtvasanna - To consider living as non-living. For example, to believe that the only living beings in this world are human beings and animals and there is no existence of any other living beings.
Asahusu sahusanna - To consider non-ascetic as ascetic. To accept as an ascetic a person who has renounced nothing including wealth and grandeur, wife and son, etc. To accept as an ascetic a person who has no virtues of an ascetic and is just dressed as one.
Sahusu asahusanna - To, consider ascetic as non-ascetic. To believe a true ascetic having all virtues, to be non-ascetic just because of opposing views or his dress.
Amuttesu muttasanna - To consider non-liberated to be liberated. To accept as liberated those who have not come out of the trap of rebirth by cleansing the soul of the dirt of karmas.
Muttesu amuttasanna - To consider liberated to be non-liberated. To accept as non-liberated, those who have attained moksha with the belief that man is never liberated, a simple soul (atma) cannot become the Ultimate-soul (Paramatma), the soul can never be free of the trap of karmas.
In simple terms this means to accept true as false and vice versa without properly judging the vices and virtues or the supporting and contradicting evidences, is called mithyatva. As knowledge depends on capacity, with the development of the capacity a perspn rejects falsity and progresses towards truth. But a mithyatvi because of his dogma chokes his own path of progress.
Aagam- 44 -NandiSootra
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Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
